# Date: August 20, 1915

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P. S. You wrote unclearly in your letter to Weinkon: is it scheduled for
Aug[ust] 20 or proposed? Jot down a couple of lines about this for me 
and G r i g o r y (if it's urgent).
Rakovsky (see his pamphlet) on the defense of the fatherland. In my view, we have nothing in common with such people.
1 The drafts of the manifesto and declaration have not yet been found. For a draft 
of the resolution see p. 165.
2 "Nashe Slovo" [Our Word]—a daily newspaper published in Paris from January 
1915 to October 1916. The organ of the Trotskyists (see Lenin's Works, vol. XIX, 
note 34, p. 453).
3 In January 1915 there appeared a pamphlet by J. Borghardt: "Vor und nach 
dem 4 August 1914. Hat die deutsche Sozialdemokratie abgedankt?". Verlag 
der Lichtstrahlen. Berlin. 1915 ("Before and After August 4, 1914. Has German 
Social-Democracy Abdicated?" Pub. "Lichtstrahlen". Berlin 1915), in which he for 
the first time subjected to sharp criticism the traitorous conduct of the German 
S.D. at the beginning of the world war (see Lenin's article "How the Police and 
Reactionaries Guard the Unity of German Social-Democracy" in Works, vol. XVIII, 
p. 117).
4 At the international socialist women's conference in Berne under the leadership 
of Clara Zetkin, the principled resolution proposed by the delegation of the CC 
RSDLP was rejected and a resolution adopted that evaded the question of condemning 
social-chauvinism.
5 "Proletarskii Golos" [Proletarian Voice]—an illegal organ of the PK RSDLP 
Bolsheviks published in 1915 and 1916. Four issues appeared.
6 The reference is to the pamphlet by Ch. Rakovsky "Les socialistes et la guerre" 
(Bucharest). 1915 ("Socialists and War"). Published in Russian translation in 1919 
in Petrograd.

27090 V. I. LENIN — E. A. BERZIN
AND LONDON. *
[August 20, 1915 Sorenberg.]

Dear Berzin!

Thank you very much for the mandate I received.1 Please be so kind as to send me at once the same document in French or German with a stamp, etc., in full form and with a mandatory addition to the text of the mandate stating that your party was always

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The letter was written on a postcard, with the sender's address indicated:
Uljanow in Sorenberg (K[an]t[on] Luzern) Switzerland; and the mailing address:
Mr. Jean Berzine. 33. South Hill Park. 33. Hampstead London. N. W. England
Angleterre. The date is established on the basis of the postal stamp. Ed.